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" Pakistan's political instability is its greatest vulnerability, and a decline in U.S. power would reduce America's ability to aid Pakistan's consolidation and development. "

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" Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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" Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia. "

" I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety? "

" Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition. "

" The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real. "

" To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well. "

" The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill. "

" If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that? "

" The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies. "

" The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America. "

" One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone. "

" War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions. "

" War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. "

" According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. "

" Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal. "

" I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands. "

" We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree. "

" Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership. "

" The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution. "

" Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states. "

" I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy. "

" Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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" As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping. "

" The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers. "

" The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance. "

" Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset. "

" We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. "

" During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age. "

" Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly. "

" We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. "